I was looking at this last night. If you log into the box (via the web interface), you can see the error logs and processes. pppd constantly fails and is run again. You can see the PID changing each time the process list is refreshed.

Should it be PPPoE? I have a BT connection at home and it uses PPPoA. I thought it had to be PPPoA, but looking on the web, it seems that BT is enabling PPPoE. Do we need PPPoE for something fancy? Will we lose anything by going to PPPoA?

The connection on the ADSL line is PPPoA. We have been using the ADSL modem as a PPPoA - PPPoE bridge, and then doing PPPoE on the router. This is nice because it keeps all the control and queues and so on in one place, which helps with the QoS stuff we need to do to make the net usable with lots of people sharing the connection.

For some reason this has stopped working. I've poked around and reconfigured it all from scratch to no avail.

So instead, the ADSL modem is now doing the PPP itself, and the router is just getting DHCP from it on its WAN port and speaking normal IP over Ethernet.

i had a look at the router config on saturday afternoon when it went down. i tried to check what the WAN connection status was but can only find the PPPoE section which notifies that the router isn't set to PPPoE. martin - where should one go for the proper WAN-LAN status info? i then just went for the reboot option and that seemed to resolve the problem at the time.

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